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However, Russia's attack has compromised Erdogan's attempt to portray Turkey as a regional power. In addition, Arab countries have joined the US policy in Syria and have left Erdogan out in the cold.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed during talks on Monday in Berlin that they would wait for the next European Union leaders' summit on March 26-27 to evaluate Ankara's behavior and ascertain whether there is any good will on its part for a solution to the migration crisis. 

His visit comes in time of heightened tensions between Ankara and Moscow over escalating clashes with Syrian government forces in northwestern Idlib region, the Turkish presidency said today.

Facts on the ground change rapidly. Turkey's President has been trapped in a huge quagmire exclusively of his own making. His embroiling Turkey in adventures abroad has turned into a boomerang. For the first time, his handling of the situation is openly questioned in Ankara itself. He seems to have no exit strategy.

Turkey and Azerbaijan on Feb. 25 are set to sign a preferential trade agreement towards reaching a $15 billion trade volume target.

Αs Turkish President Recep Tayyip was declaring to  members of his AK Party that Greece has resigned itself to Ankara's geopolitical designs in the Mediterranean, Cyprus' Energy Minister Georgios Lakkotrypis told an audience at the Greek foreign ministry that his country will move forward with its hydrocarbons drilling plans in its exclusive economic zone.

U.S. President Donald Trump thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by phone for preventing a "humanitarian catastrophe" in northwestern Syria's Idlib province, the White House said on Feb. 16.

Turkey's president received in Istanbul the political chief of Hamas on Feb. 1.

The closed-door meeting was held between Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Hamas's Ismail Haniyeh at the Vahdettin Pavilion, lasting one hour and 15 minutes.

French President Emmanuel Macron accused his Turkish counterpart on Wednesday of breaking promises made at an international conference on Libya after Turkish warships and Syrian fighters arrived in Libya.

Construction began on Jan. 18 on a new high-speed metro line connecting the heart of Istanbul to the new mega-Istanbul Airport.

The new line, set to be finished in August 2021, will whisk passengers from Gayrettepe, in Şişli, on the Turkish metropolis' European side, to the new airport in just 35 minutes.